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A body washed up on the shore of the Trump Golf Links near the Whitestone Bridge in The Bronx Wednesday evening, sources said. The corpse was discovered at Ferry Point on the grounds of the public course — run by President Trump’s private company — at about 8:30 p.m. by kids playing by the East River shore, according to law-enforcement sources. The body was badly decomposed and found lying on rocks, the sources said. The gender could not immediately be determined. The manner of death was not immediately known. The NYPD Harbor Unit was also called to the area and security guards for the Trump facility blocked access to the course. The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death. Last year, the body of 26-year-old woman washed up on the beach by the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. In 2016, the Trump Organization struck an agreement with New York City to operate a public golf course on the site of the former Bronx landfill. … [Read more...] about Dead body found near Trump golf course

By Mark Edward Nero | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: July 16, 2018 at 5:31 pm | UPDATED: July 16, 2018 at 6:03 pm The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council is expected to consider putting a ballot measure on the Nov. 6 ballot calling for panic buttons and wage increases for employees of large hotels and golf courses in the city. The measure, to be discussed at the Council’s Tuesday, July 17, meeting would establish a minimum wage of $15 an hour for hospitality workers effective Jan. 1, 2019, increasing by a dollar an hour each Jan. 1 through 2022. It would also make available to workers who work by themselves in restrooms, guest rooms and isolated locations have access to panic buttons that they can use to report sexual assaults or other threatening conduct. The proposed ordinance is supported by Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and restaurant workers in Southern California. It would affect Terranea Resort, Trump National Golf Club and all other large hotels, golf … [Read more...] about Rancho Palos Verdes to consider putting ‘panic button,’ hotel worker wage increase measure on ballot

By Sam Gnerre | [email protected] | Daily BreezePUBLISHED: June 11, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: June 12, 2018 at 10:08 am Thousands of motorists and spectators lined the hillsides along the Palos Verdes Peninsula coastline in the vicinity of Bluff Cove on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the early 1920s, and what they witnessed truly was extraordinary. On that day, Oct. 21, 1923, engineers from the Hercules Powder Company set off a fuse that detonated 100,000 pounds of black powder and 10,000 pounds of dynamite. The resulting blast sent an estimated 100,000 cubic yards of earth and rock tumbling into the ocean. More than 300,000 cubic yards eventually would be cleared from the area. “When the explosion came, it could be heard for miles and the earth trembled for a moment as if shaken by an earthquake,” according to a story the next day in the Los Angeles Times. What sightseers had viewed was the clearing of a hillside for the Douglas cut, an earthmoving feat that would allow for … [Read more...] about South Bay History: The big bang that opened up the Palos Verdes Peninsula

U.S. Donald Trump golf courses Sexual Assault Golf President Donald Trump’s golf club in the Los Angeles area could be required to install panic buttons for its employees to report sexual assault and “other threatening behavior” if a proposed ordinance makes it on the November ballot and gets voted in. Related: Trump Loses Tax Break On Scottish Golf Course Meant For Struggling Businesses Members of the union Unite Here Local 11 submitted a petition Wednesday in Rancho Palos Verdes with 4,000 signatures in favor of panic buttons at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles and the nearby luxury Terranea Resort, according to the Los Angeles Times. Panic buttons are a must because "hospitality employees who work by themselves in guest rooms, restrooms, or in isolated locations are vulnerable to crimes and other threatening behavior, including sexual assault," the proposal states. Recommended Slideshows 44 In Pictures: Every U.S. President Ranked From Best … [Read more...] about Trump’s Golf Club May Need to Install Panic Buttons For Workers to Report Sexual Assault, Under Ballot Proposal

By Nick Green | [email protected] | Daily BreezePUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 4:48 pm | UPDATED: May 3, 2018 at 5:07 pm Lawrence “Larry Clark, a former Rancho Palos Verdes mayor and California coastal commissioner who waged a public battle against pancreatic cancer for more than five years and became an inspirational ambassador for the nonprofit group the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, died Wednesday. He was 69. As word of his passing spread Thursday, friends and former colleagues paid tribute to a man best known in the community for spending two terms on the City Council, including two years as mayor, and dealing with “complicated issues with panache and good humor,” said Barbara Dye, former executive director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. “I remember how he was able to talk to disparate community members in a way that made them feel part of the process even though they didn’t always get what they wanted,” Dye recalled. “He … [Read more...] about Former Rancho Palos Verdes Mayor Larry Clark dies at 69